Will Tiger hold on the the world's #1 ranking?

Question

Now that Tiger has "Shut it down" for the year, can anyone use this opportunity to take his #1 world ranking? How about the FedEx Cup? And who will win the Vardon Trophy?

Answer 1

Yes, unless someone puts up 9 wins like Vijay did in '04 to take away the No. 1

Tiger may even miss Augusta next year because I read his layoff could be 6-12 months.  If someone wins the British Open, PGA and Masters and a bunch of other tournaments, he will be close.

As for FedEx, he will be in the Top-30 at season's end, but because the points reset for the playoff events, he cannot win the cup unless he plays.

Answer 2

Simply - YES !

He is so far ahead in points.

Answer 3

With the wins Tiger had up until his injuries, he has a very good chance of holding # 1. The Vardon Trophy is out of reach because there are a minimum number of rounds which have to have been played in order to qualify and I don't think he reached the minimum. Don't know about the Fed Ex since that has a new format .

Answer 4

tiger will only lose his #1 spot if somebody steps and start dominating like lorana did

Answer 5

he will hold up untill he retires.........he will be the next golden bear jack nicaluas

Answer 6

The ranking is done by winnings. Tiger already has a pretty good leads winning 6 of last 7 tournaments. But the season is not close from being over. If someone like Phil stepped it up, it is very possible that Tiger will loses his position. But he will come back strong and the best player will always find his place no matter what the rankings says.

Answer 7

Considering that he has more than double the points of second place, it is going to take someone with a huge number of wins (like Vijay Singh did a number of years ago) to take over from Tiger. Because everyone else seems to be playing at the same level, I find it hard to pick any one person who can catch up.

Answer 8

Possible.  If the top seeds do not win more than 2 tournament this year.